Education

Biography

Oliver was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied Physics at University of Hamburg with a focus on solid state and semicondustor physics. He studied as PhD-student at Technische University of Hamburg-Harburg in the department for semiconductor technology and microsystems from 1991 to 1996, working on integrated-optical amplifiers. Since 1997 he has been working on optical and radio communications in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (and its predecessors). He was Senior Research Engineer in the Radio System Optimization department until 2013 and since 2013 is team leader for Energy Efficient Small Cells.

Honors and Awards

Oliver won the Best Paper Award at WCNC 2014 in Istanbul for the paper "Enhancement of Future Mobile Networks" together with R. Litjens, Y. Toh and H. Zhang of TNO.

Oliver's paper in IEEE ComMag Oct 2011 on the Energy evaluation framework (E3F), published together with several co-authors of the EARTH project, has won the IEEE Ellersick paper award 2014, honoring an outstanding article published in a Communications Society magazine in the previous three calendar years.

Oliver was nominated a member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy in 2009.
Oliver won the Alcatel -Lucent Boot Camp in 2009 with the eldoRadio project.
Oliver won the Bell Labs team award in 2009 with the LTE mobility team.

Professional Activities

Oliver has been working in research for telecommunications for more than 20 years, lately specialising in 3GPP mobile networks. He has been contributing to and driving several national and European cooperation projects like GreenTouch, EARTH, Ambient Networks, Scalenet, WIGWAM and CoOp.

Oliver has engaged in numerous TPCs of conferences and workshops, e.g. for Globecom, VTC-Spring, MONAMI, ISWCS.

Selected Articles and Publications

Oliver has published more than 45 peer reviewed paper and articles, one RFC and 3 tutorials.
For the complete list see the ResearchGate profile.

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